But, lo, who are these in bright array, looking over the battlements of heaven, while the forces of liberty and slavery in other forms struggle together on these earthly plains beneath? These with radiant faces unstained by tears, that seem never to have known the mark of pain or sorrow? Ah! these are they who have come out of great tribulation, anguish and martyrdom; Paul from the stones; Homer from his blindness; Socrates from his cup of poison; Milton from his heart-break; Savonarola from his fagots, and Lincoln from his long martyrdom—the least part of which was the shot that freed his spirit in the hour of triumph and joy.
Index
Abolition Societies in the South, [25]
Abominations, tariff of, [50], [163]
Æsop's Fables, [290], [297], [316]
"Adam Bede," [148]
Adams, Charles F., [54], [243]
Adams, John, [83], [121]
Alabama, secession, [189]
Alabama, the, [225], [238], [245]
Albemarle, the, [245]
Albert, Prince Consort, [226]
Aldersen, Judge, [107]
Alva, Duke of, [15], [264]
American Tract Society, [296]
Ames, Fisher, [213]
Andersonville, [269], [270]
Anne, Queen, [18]
Anti-Slavery epoch, importance of, [6], [7], [13]
Arab slave-hunters, [30]
Athens, [14], [41], [212]
Atlanta and Sherman, [249]
Austin, James T., [81]
Bach, John S., [301]
Bacon, Lord, [110]
Bailey, Kentucky editor, [140]
Bancroft, George, [104], [282]
Bates, Edward, [184]
Beauregard, P. G. T., [192], [244]
Beecher, Henry Ward, [49], [69], [91], [181], [204];
Chapter IX, The Appeal to England, [212-241];
reasons for European trip of, [214-216];
no official embassy, [217];
interview of, with Lincoln, [218];
breakfast to, in London, [219];
speech at Manchester, [227-230];
at Glasgow and Edinburgh, [231], [232];
in Liverpool, [232], [234];
in London, [235];
triumph at home, [235], [239];
raises Sumter flag, [241];
and Lincoln, [212], [218], [304-305]
Beecher, Lyman, [138]
Bell, John, [184]
Bishop of New Jersey, [296]
Bowen, Henry C., [181]
Breckenridge, J. C., [184]
Bremer, Frederika, [144]
Bright, John, [222], [225]
Brown, John, Chapter VI, [136-159];
in Springfield, [149];
North Elba, [150];
Iowa, [150];
Kansas, [151-154];
Virginia, [154];
Harper's Ferry, [155];
trial and death, [155-158];
his fanaticism overruled, [159]
Brown-Sequard, Dr., [114]
Bryant, Wm. C., [182]
Buchanan, Com. Franklin, [245]
Buchanan, James, [189]
Buckle, Thomas, [204]
Bunyan, John, [325]
Burns, Anthony, [84-87]
Burns, Robert, [310]
Burnside, Gen. A. E., [252]
Byron, Lord, [84]
Calhoun, John C., [12];
early career, [46], [47];
nullification, [51];
government and sovereignty, [52];
mistakes of, [59];
influence on non-slaveholding South, [196];
political doctrine of, in church affairs, [204-205]
Carlisle, Lord, [144]
Carlyle, Thomas, [100], [107], [236-238], [31-3121]
Carpet-baggers, [259]
Cervantes, [325]
Channing, Wm. E., [74], [75], [81], [104]
Charles I, [23], [42]
Charles II, [23]
Chase, Salmon P., [141]
Christian Commission, [272]
Clay, Henry, [52], [61], [289]
Cobden, Richard, [222], [238]
Columbus, Christopher, [291]
Columbus, Ky., [253]
Congregationalism and State sovereignty, [204-205]
Constitution, the, [206]
Convention of 1776, [23]
Cooper, Peter, [182]
Cotton, [26-29], [49], [222-224]
Cushing, Lieut. W. B., [245]
Dante, [95], [251], [290], [318], [325]
Darwin, Charles, [291], [301]
Davis, Jefferson, Stephens' opinion of, [203];
early career, [206];
as Confederate president, [206]
De Bau on slave trade, [20]
Declaration of Independence, [25]
Demetrius, [87]
Democracy, advance of, [5]
Demosthenes, [14], [213]
Dickens, Charles, novels of reform, [139];
praises "Uncle Tom's Cabin," [143];
predicts Confederate success, [238]
Donelson, Fort, [246]
Douglass, Frederick, [34]
Douglas, Stephen A.,
as orator, [69];
early career, [165-166];
supports Polk, [167];
proposes "squatter sovereignty," [169];
loses prestige, [170-172];
challenged to debate by Lincoln, [173];
compared with Lincoln, [174-177];
the great debate, [178-181];
nominated for presidency, [184];
supports Union, [185];
death, [185];
and Northern Democrats in 1861, [193]
Dutch revolt, [264]
Dwight, President Yale College, [46]
Dyer, Oliver, [48]
Edwards, Jonathan, [21]
Eliot, George, [146], [148]
England, [26], [49];
source of American principles, [218];
as to wars, [220];
why favourable to South, [221-224];
non-voters of, favoured North, [225];
Beecher in, [218-221], [227-235], [239-241]
English Anti-Slavery Society, [227]
Emerson, Ralph W., [68], [96], [236], [285]
Everett, Edward, [69], [106], [315]
Ewell, Gen. Richard S., [245]
Faneuil Hall, [81], [85]
Farragut, Admiral David, [196], [246-247]
Fillmore, Millard, [101]
Florida, secession, [189]
Floyd, John B., [189]
Foote, Admiral Andrew H., [246]
Fort Fisher, [247]
Forts Donelson and Henry, [246]
Fort Sumter, [191], [208], [241]
Franklin, Benjamin, [34]
Frémont, Gen. J. C., [215], [246]
Fugitive Slave legislation, [36], [87], [214]
Fulton Street prayer-meeting, [162]
Garrison, Wm. Lloyd and W. Phillips, Chapter III, [68-94];
the pen for abolition, [68];
early career, [69];
begins agitation with Lundy, [70];
starts Liberator, 1831, [71];
accused of Turner uprising, [72];
organized American Anti-Slavery Society, [74];
mobbed in Boston, [76];
satisfied with Lincoln's emancipation, [93]
Geneva Arbitration, [225]
George III, [24]
Gladstone, W. E., [225]
Gordon, Gen. J. B., [271], [285-286]
Government contracts, [282-283]
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., [246], [248];
early career, [252];
rapid promotion, [253];
Columbus, Donelson and Vicksburg, [254];
military genius, [255];
final campaign, [250];
Appomattox, [257-258];
President, [259];
political and financial problems, [259-260];
unwise speculation, [261];
authorship, [261];
character and death, [261-262]
Great men, era of, [292-293]
Great Rebellion, the, [11-13];
war of the, [265]
Greeley, Horace, [54], [182], [183];
Chapter V, [117-135];
early career, [122-126];
founds N. Y. Tribune, [126];
extremist as reformer, [129];
"On to Richmond," [129];
evokes Lincoln letter, [130];
peace commissioner, [131];
draft riots, [131];
bails Davis, [132];
Democratic presidential candidate, [133];
dies, [134-135];
and Lincoln, [299], [305]
Greenback craze, [260]
Greene, Mrs. Nathanael, [27]
Grinnell, James B., [150]
Grote, George, [107]
Halleck, Gen. H. W., [253]
Hampden, John, [42], [83]
Hancock, John, [83]
Hastings, Warren, [213]
Hay, John, [218]
Hayne, Robert Y., [41], [51], [56], [163]
Hayti, [69]
Heine, Heinrich, [144]
Helper, Hinton Rowan, [197]
Helps, Arthur, [144]
Henry, Fort, [246]
Henry, Patrick, [68], [191], [213]
Hessian troops, [268]
Higginson, T. W., [85]
Hill, Frederic T., [242]
Hill, Gen. A. P., [245]
Hill, Gen. D. H., [245]
Holland, [15], [41], [264]
Homer, [326]
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, [251]
Howe, Dr. Samuel G., [104]
"Imitation of Christ, The," [143]
"Impending Crisis, The," [197]
Irving, Washington, [74]
Jackson, Andrew, [293]
Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall), [200-202], [244], [245], [268]
Jamestown, Va., [17]
Japanese sanitation in war, [272]
Jefferson, Thomas, [20], [24], [25], [53], [191]
Jeffrey, Lord, [107]
Jesus, parables of, [315];
martyrdom of, [325]
Johnson, Samuel, [312]
Johnston, Gen. A. S., [244]
Johnston, Gen. J. E., [242]
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, [88], [169], [172]
Kearsarge, the, [246]
Kemble, Fanny, [32]
Kenesaw Mountain, [242]
Kentucky, [196]
Kingsley, Charles, [144]
Laud, Archbishop, [42]
Lawless, Judge, [79]
Lee, Robert E.,
honour to Virginia, [194];
early career, [199];
as strategist, [244];
final campaign against Grant, [256];
Appomattox, [257-258];
quoted, [285-286]
Liberator, the, [71-73]
Lincoln, Abraham, new force, [163];
challenges Douglas to debate, [173];
compared with Douglas, [174-176];
"divided-house speech," [177];
the great debate, [177-180];
Cooper Institute speech, [181-183];
presidential nomination, [183];
election and inauguration, [186-187];
inaugural address, [190];
calls for 75,000 troops, [193];
applauds Beecher, [212];
interview with Beecher, [218];
quoted, [286-287];
the Martyred President, Chapter XII, [288-326];
Americanism, [288-289];
three books, [290];
career, in brief, [296-298];
opposes Seward, Stanton and Greeley, [299];
ancestry, [300-303];
opposes Phillips, Greeley and Beecher, [304-306];
honesty, [307-308];
literary style, [309-315];
concentrated culture, [314-315];
with Everett at Gettysburg, [315];
made great by great events, [317-318];
characteristics, [319-320];
religious faith, [321-323];
death, [325]
Lincoln and Douglas, the Great Debate, Chapter VII, [159-186]
London, [16], [18], [235]
Log Cabin, the, [125]
Longfellow, H. W., [104], [273]
Longstreet, Gen. James, [244]
Loring, U. S. Commissioner, [84]
Louisiana, secession, [189]
Lovejoy, Rev. E. P., murder of, [78-80]
Lowell, James R., [94], [99-102], [282], [284]
Lundy, Benjamin, [69-70]
Luther, Martin, [115]
Macaulay, T. B., [107], [280]
McClellan, Gen. G. B., [250-252]
Machiavelli, [307]
McKinley, William, [289]
Mammonism, [6]
Mann, Horace, [63], [106]
Mansfield, Lord, [24]
Marshall, Thomas, [46]
Martineau, Harriet, [113]
Mason, James M., [225]
Medill, Joseph, [179]
Merrimac, the, [245]
Mexican War, [167], [252]
Michael Angelo, [318]
Milton, John, [16], [93], [318], [326]
Mississippi, secession, [189]
Missouri Compromise, [169]
Mobile Bay, [247]
Monitor, the, [245]
Morton, Governor of Indiana, [273]
Moses, [36]
Motley, John L., [75], [96]
Napoleon, [242]
National Era, the, [143]
Negro, as faithful servant, as soldier, [259-260];
as voter, [281]
New Orleans taken, [247]
Newspapers, in 1861-1865, [118], [119]
Newton, Isaac, [291]
New Yorker, the, [125]
New York Tribune, [126-128]
Northern officers of Southern birth, [196]
Northern resources, [274-279]
Nullification, [51], [54]
Nurses, [272-274]
Otis, James, [83]
Palestine, [41]
Panic of 1857, [160-161]
Parke, Judge, [107]
Parker, Theodore, [84], [85]
Parliament House of Peace, [110]
Paul, the Apostle, [326]
Penn, William, [22]
People at Home during the war, Chapter XI, [263-287]
Philip of Macedon, [15], [213]
Philip of Spain, [15]
Phillips, Wendell, [63];
Chapter III, [68-94];
early career, [75];
aroused by mobbing of Garrison, [76];
Lovejoy's murder, [78];
Faneuil Hall meeting, [81-83];
Burns' rescue party, [85], [86];
agitation against Fugitive Slave Law, [87], [88];
Phillips' lecturing, [89];
oratory, [90];
defiance of mobs, [91-92];
influence, [93];
Lowell's poem, [94];
quoted, [285]
"Pilgrim's Progress, The," [143]
Plymouth Church, [91], [163], [181], [204], [218], [235]
Plymouth Rock, [17]
Popular sovereignty, [170]
Porter, Admiral D. D., [247]
Port Hudson, [247]
Portuguese slave-traders, [19]
Postal affairs, during Revolution, [120];
in Jackson's time, [121]
Presbyterianism and Federal government, [205]
Prescott, Wm. H., [96], [106]
Prison-ship martyrs, [264]
Prison sufferings, [269-271]
Pym, John, [42]
Quincy, Josiah, [53], [83], [213]
Randolph, John, [32]
Raphael, [318]
Religious sentiment increased, [284]
Revival of religion in 1857, [161-162]
Rhodes, J. F., [60], [162], [202]
"Romola," [146]
Ruskin, John, [310]
Russo-Japanese War, [210]
Sand, George, [144]
Sanitary Commission, Christian Commission, [272]
Savonarola, [325-326]
Scheffer, Ary, and Christ the Emancipator, [296]
Scott, Winfield, [196]
Secession, first threatened by Massachusetts, [52], [53];
reasons for, Chapter VIII, [188-211];
of South Carolina and other States, [189];
why not accepted by North, [207-209];
early rebellions of, [294-295]
Semmes, Com. Raphael, [245]
Seward, Wm. H., [128], [183], [184], [217], [299]
Shaftesbury, Lord, [144], [145]
Shays' rebellion, [293]
Shenandoah Valley, [250]
Sheridan, Gen. Philip, [248], [250]
Sherman, Gen. W. T., [242], [248-249]
Slavery, American, Chapter I, [11-39];
Calhoun's view of, [55];
controlled government in 1860, [188];
attacked by North Carolinian, [196];
destroyed vigour of South, [210];
to be paid for by war, [287]
Slave-trade begins, [17]
Slidell, John, [225]
Smith, Sidney, [107]
Socrates, [263], [301]
South Carolina, and the tariff, [50];
nullification
doctrine of, [51];
attacked Sumter, [191]
Southern destitution, [267]
Southern officers of Northern birth, [195]
Southern resources, [279], [280]
Southern women, [266-268], [281]
Spanish slave-traders, [19]
"Squatter sovereignty," [169]
Stanton, Edwin M., [235], [240], [299]
Stead, William, [99]
Stephens, Alexander H., [201];
opposes secession, [202];
Confederate vice-president, [203];
opinion of Davis, [203]
Story, Joseph, [75], [104]
Stowe, Calvin E., [139]
Stowe, Charles E., [139]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Chapter VI, [136-148];
daughter of Lyman Beecher, [138];
married, lived in Cincinnati, [139];
wrote death of "Uncle Tom," [141];
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," [143-148]
Stowe, Lyman Beecher, [139]
Stradivarius, [301]
Sumner, Charles, [54], [75];
Chapter IV, [95-116];
succeeds Webster in United States Senate, [102];
early career, [104-110];
oration on war, [107-109];
boldly attacks slavery, [110-113];
beaten by Brooks, [113];
characterization, [114-116]
Surgeons, [272-274]
Taney, Roger B., [186]
Tariff, the, [48-50]
Texas, secession, [189]
Thackeray, W. M., [148]
Thomas, Gen. G. H., [196], [248]
Times, the London, [230]
Tombs, Robert, [137]
Trent, the, [225]
Tribune Almanac, [128]
Tribune, The New York, [126-128]
Tribune reporter and John Brown, [153]
Turner, Nat, [34]
"Uncle Tom," death of, [141]
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," [143-148]
"Vanity Fair," [148]
Van Zandt, frees slaves, [140]
Vaughan, Judge, [107]
Vicksburg, [247]
Victoria, Queen, [146], [226]
War, good and evil influence of the, [281-285]
Washburne, E. B., [179]
Washington, George, [24], [191];
contrast with Lincoln, [288-289]
Watt, James, [110], [291]
Webster and Calhoun, Chapter II, [40-67]
Webster, Daniel, [12];
early career, [44], [45];
answers Hayne, [56-58];
answers Calhoun, [60], [61];
7th of March speech, [61-63];
Lincoln approves, [64];
Webster dies, [66];
as orator, [69], [164], [292];
banner of, [295]
Wellington, [242]
Whiskey rebellion, [293]
Whitefield, George, [21]
Whitney, Eli, [27-29], [45]
Whittier, John G., [63], [69], [96], [106], [285]
Winchester and Sheridan, [250]
Winslow, Admiral John A., [246]
Winthrop, Robert, [273]
Wirtz, Henry, [270]
Wise, Governor of Virginia, [155-156]
Worden, Admiral John L., [245]
Wordsworth, Wm., [107]
Xenophon, [264]
FOOTNOTES:
[1]"Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Story of Her Life." By Charles E. Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
[2] "On the Trail of Grant and Lee," by Frederic Trevor Hill: New York and London, D. Appleton & Co.